Showing posts with label civilian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civilian. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Monday, January 18, 2016

An Unidentified Man Posing in Front of a Union Field Hospital Near City Point, Virginia, During the Siege of Petersburg


An unidentified man posing in front of a field hospital near City Point, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Sunday, January 25, 2015

A Bombproof Eatery Named the "Fruit & Oyster House" Built by a Sutler During the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864)


An unidentified man posing in front of a bombproof eatery set up by a sutler during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, c. 1864. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

Two Views of an Unidentified Man Posing in Front of a Bombproof in Fort Sedgwick Which Was Built by Union Troops During the Siege of Petersburg Near Petersburg, Virginia (1865)

First view of the man posing in front of the bombproof in the foreground on the left.

View of the background on the right.

Second view of the man posing in front of the bombproof.

Two views of an unidentified man posing in front of a bombproof in Fort Sedgwick which was built by Union troops during the Siege of Petersburg near Petersburg, Virginia, 1865. A group of Union soldiers are seen posing in the background to the right of the first stereoscopic view. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Three Men Posing With Two Mortars in the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island Shortly After the Surrender of the Nearby Fort Sumter by Union Forces in Charleston Harbor (1861)


Three men posing with two mortars in the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island shortly after the surrender of the nearby Fort Sumter by Union forces in Charleston Harbor, 1861. The battery fired its mortars at Fort Sumter in the bombardment leading to its surrender. The darkroom used by the photographers to develop this photograph is visible behind the mortar in the background. By Osborn and Durbec. From The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.